Egg-steamer.



B. WELLS.

EGG STEAMER.

APPLIoATIoN FILED ooT. 22,1908.

936,965.V A Patented 0cn.12,19o9..

UNITED sTATEs EGG-STEAMER.

l PATENT BETTY wELLs, orlcmcaeo, rumors.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct.- 1 2, A1909..

.Application .filed October 22, 1908. Serial I\To.458,-987.'y

To all 'whom "it may concern.' Be it known that I, BETTY WELLS, a citizen of tlie United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new `anduse within said receptacle, and adapted to be remetal of the sides of Preferably moved therefrom, this frame carrying separate and independent egg-liolders and having a flange projecting down thereon below the eggvholders which will permit the frame to be removed from the receptacle and placed upon a flat surface without raising the egg holders from their position in the frame.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device of this character wherein steam risingfrom the boiling water' shall circulate` entirely around the eggs so that they may be equally cooked on all sides.

The invention consists in the arrangement of parts and details of construction'shown in the accompanying drawings and particu larly stated in the claimsappended.

In the drawings Figure l, is a diametrical section. Fig. 2, is a plan view of the receptacle with the cover removed but the egg holding frame in place. v

A designates a receptacle or boiler cylindrical -in plan and having the internal rib B near its upper edge.

C designates a cover litting in the openl upper end of the boiler. The internal rib B ave shown as formed by bending in the the boiler, but itmay be made in any. other though this is preferable.

The frame for supporting the egg holders consists of a plate D having the downwardly extendingliange E, the holder at the junction of the flange and the plate having a circumferential rib d formed thereon adapted to engage with the rib B so that the egg holding frame is supported thereon. the rib d is .formed by making the flange E slightly smaller in diameter than the plate D, the flange and plate being formed from one piece of metal in the maiiner sho-wn in Fig. 1, but I do not wish to be limited to this exact construction.

vinto ywhich a set of convenient manner,"v I

` ceptacle for boiling water,

The plate D has circular openings therein egg recei-vers or holders F are located. These holders have outwardly projecting flanges f engaging over the edges of the openings in The egg cups or holders F are not so deep as the flange-E vas shown in Fig. 1, and hence when the frame D is placed upon a table, the cups or holders F will not be forced out. As shown in Fig. 2 the plate D is cut away as at G as much as possible to permit steam from the boiling water in the receptacle to circulate aroundD the upper ends of the eggs.

The central portion of the plate or frame is formed with a ring or handle H whereby it may be raised out of the receptacle or inserted therein. In operation eggs are broken and the contents are placed in the cups or holders, the frame is then placed in theboiler which has previously been placed upon the vIire. The steam generated in the boiler the egg holding plate.

will pass up and around the eggs, thus uniformly and entirely cooking the same.

When the eggs have cooked a suflicient length of time the frame may be lifted out and the. flanges E as before said permit the y same to be set upon a flat surface as upon a table without the egg cups or hplders contacting with the table and being forcedv upward.

It is obvious that the eggs may be poached v very conveniently in the holders so that the holders might be removed and eggs placed within the openings left for the holders, provided these were small theeggs from falling through.

.My device -is neat, compact, very simply made and very effective in operation.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as, new and desire to secure by Let- .ters Patent is:

bent to form an internal rib near the upper enough to prevent edge thereof, in combination with an egg supporting framew comprising a skeleton plate havin a downwardly extending circumferential flange of slightly less diameter than 'said plate and forming 4therewith an outwardly extending rib, said skeleton plate v y having openings therethrough in which eggs may be supported, and a series of openings through which steam may pass to the .receptacle above the plate, means for lifting said plate and a plurality of egg holders Q A g ,.5 936,965

.. adapted to fit in said openings in the plate I In testimony whereof I have signed my A porting the lsame) and said circumferential two subscribing Witnesses.

and having ciicurnferential anges for supname to this specification in the presence of 10 Han e extendin elow the level of the bottom of said ho ders to support, the same out BETTY WELLS of contact with the support upon which the Witnesses; device is resting when removed from the ANNA L; EKVALL receptacle, substantially as described. HELEN F. LILLIs. 

